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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

GDP and 8% of greenhouse gas emissions. All of this is surprising since the health care sustainability agenda has mostly focused on supply chain issues, reducing exposure of patients and workers to toxic chemicals, green building, and general eco-efficiency. Why are they doing so much on renewable energy?

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Robots Seem to Be Improving Productivity, Not Costing Jobs

Harvard Business Review

Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 That might not seem like a lot but it represents 10% of total GDP growth in the countries studied and 16% of labor productivity growth over that time period.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

In South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, another long-term study found that "more equal education between men and women could have led to nearly 1 percent higher annual per capita GDP growth" in each country. A study found that 18% of school age girls in Rwanda, for instance, miss school because menstrual pads are too expensive.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. Why Russia is still attractive.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. But they also needed to show promise, with a healthy per capita GDP. Helena still remembered him as a friendly, energetic adolescent; she and her sisters had called him el cachorro , the puppy.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

With an increase in Japan’s female employment rate, the country’s workforce would expand by more than eight million people—and its GDP would grow by as much as 13 percent.* Increasing gender diversity has become an economic priority in countries such as Japan that placed last with 10 percent of its leaders as women.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

PwC’s annual Low Carbon Economy Index report concluded that we must lower global carbon intensity (the amount of carbon produced for every dollar of GDP) by 6% per year until 2100, a percentage point lower than last year’s report recommended. The short story is that we have less room than before.